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Advanced Topic: Decision-Making SystemsNo ratings for this module yet.5 ECTSruns this semesterSOT45505Advanced Topic: Epistemology & OntologyNo ratings for this module yet.You deepen your understanding of a focus area in epistemology and/or ontology. Using theoretical case studies and central positions, you will learn concepts and debates and will be able to independently address research questions and argue points convincingly.5 ECTSruns this semesterED0360Advanced Topic: Ethics & ResponsibilityNo ratings for this module yet.You engage with ethical questions in techno-sciences and the practice of applied ethics. In the end you will be able to analyze ethical conflicts, develop solutions for concrete case studies, and design your own research approaches in the area of Ethics & Responsibility.5 ECTSruns this semesterMCTS0041Advanced Topic: Industries & InnovationNo ratings for this module yet.You learn how techno-scientific innovations arise within and between industry sectors and what role industrial organizations play in this. In the end you will know essential theoretical perspectives and relevant studies on topics such as factory innovation, the relationship between workers and technology, technology management, organizational change, and the diffusion of models across industries, and you can discuss these critically.5 ECTSruns this semesterMCTS0032Advanced Topic: Infrastructures & DesignNo ratings for this module yet.You engage in transdisciplinary collaborations of STS researchers with technology developers, political actors and civil society groups, particularly in the context of digital and urban infrastructures. By the end you will be able to situate current approaches to this collaboration, discuss their political implications and analyze the challenges of democratizing infrastructure design.5 ECTSruns this semesterAR30384
11 more in Advanced TopicsAdvanced Topic: KnowledgeCultures & InstitutionsNo ratings for this module yet.You engage with advanced questions in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and examine how scientific knowledge is produced through social and political processes. In the end you can critically reflect on how science governance, institutional changes, and evaluation practices influence research trajectories and knowledge production, and develop your own small research question on the topic.5 ECTSruns this semesterWZ8115Advanced Topic: Law and Digitization in Action (MA STS)No ratings for this module yet.You engage with current and controversial questions around law and digitization. In the end you will be able to classify central regulatory debates, critically reflect on legal solution options, and create own practice-oriented texts such as short memoranda or blog posts.5 ECTSruns this semesterSOT860809Advanced Topic: NatureCultures & SustainabilityNo ratings for this module yet.You engage with core questions of Science and Technology Studies (STS) on the separation of nature and culture and critically reflect on the concept of sustainability. In the end you will be able to analyze connections between science/tech, environment and society and work on your own small research questions and projects on NatureCultures & Sustainability.5 ECTSruns this semesterWZ8116Advanced Topic: Publics & ParticipationNo ratings for this module yet.You deal with questions of publicness and participation in science, technology, politics and digital as well as environmental contexts. You learn how different practices of public engagement, participatory design and governance work and how to critically analyze them — also with regard to digitization.5 ECTSruns this semesterAR30380Advanced Topic: Risk & SecurityNo ratings for this module yet.You engage with historical and societal negotiating processes of risk, safety and reliability of technological artifacts, processes and systems. In the end you will be able to critically discuss theoretical approaches, contextualize historical debates on risk, and develop and empirically analyze your own research question on a case study from the history of risk and safety.5 ECTSruns this semesterED0357Advanced Topics: Politics & GovernanceNo ratings for this module yet.You engage in an in-depth study of the politics and governance of science and technology. You will learn how science and technological innovation feed into political processes (and vice versa), which actors and institutions play a role, and how normative tensions in S&T policy can be analyzed and substantiated. In the end you can systematically analyze complex issues with concepts from STS, Economics, Innovation Studies and Public Policy and advocate normative positions.5 ECTSruns this semesterWI001184Advanced Topic: Biomedicine & HealthNo ratings for this module yet.You engage with advanced questions in Science & Technology Studies (STS) on biomedicine and health. You will learn how concepts of ‘body’, ‘health’, ‘illness’ and ‘self’ shift through biomedicine innovations and how these changes have social, political and ethical consequences. In the end you will be able to critically reflect on relevant lines of research and develop your own small research questions and projects on the topic.5 ECTSno date this semesterWZ8113Advanced Topic: Co-Construction of Technology & UsersNo ratings for this module yet.In this module you explore how technologies and their users shape each other. Using historical sources you analyze co-construction processes in various technology areas and eras, and you learn to interpret these constellations comparatively and situate them in a historical context.5 ECTSno date this semesterED0359Advanced Topic: Gender & DiversityNo ratings for this module yet.You engage with gender and diversity questions in connection with science and technology. You will learn to critically discuss theoretical approaches and to address concrete research questions on gender, diversity and technical society as well as to design your own research ideas.5 ECTSno date this semesterMCTS0050Advanced Topic: Media & Digital CulturesNo ratings for this module yet.In this module you will engage with current social, political and cultural questions arising from the growing importance of digital technologies. You will learn to apply theoretical and empirical approaches to concrete cases and to assess the normative, political and cultural dimensions of digital transformations.5 ECTSno date this semesterMCTS0040Advanced Topic: Normativity and Technology (MA STS)No ratings for this module yet.You engage with central concepts around digitization, law and society. You learn to read theoretical approaches critically and apply them to current phenomena such as digital sovereignty, intermediary platforms or surveillance, and to formulate your own questions on normative-technical problems.5 ECTSno date this semesterSOT860811
1 more module matches, but it is taught in German. Show itPhilosophy of Decision-Making SystemsNo ratings for this module yet.5 ECTSno date this semesterSOT56505